The energy company Duke Energy, which has close ties to President Barack Obama’s administration and is involved with the pro-Obama political operation Organizing for Action, completed two new expansive wind power projects this month in the same region near Corpus Cristi, Texas where a major job-creating coal power project was recently disbanded.
Chase Power announced January 23 that it has canceled construction of its $3 billion Las Brisas coal power plant, which was supposed to be part of the larger Las Brisas Energy Center in the Inner Harbor of Corpus Cristi. The Las Brisas Energy Center, including the coal plant, was projected to create 3,900 new jobs in Texas before its termination.
Chase Power CEO Dave Freysinger blamed the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency for the project’s cancellation.
“The [Las Brisas Energy Center] is a victim of EPA’s concerted effort to stifle solid-fuel energy facilities in the U.S., including EPA’s carbon-permitting requirements and EPA’s New Source Performance Standards for new power plants,” he told a local reporter.
Chase Power’s announcement came in the same month that Charlotte-based Duke Energy announced the completion of two new wind projects near Corpus Cristi.
Duke Energy announced the completion of the Los Vientos I and Los Vientos II wind projects on January 14.
The Los Vientos projects are located “approximately 120 miles south of Corpus Christi and 20 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico,” according to a 2011 Duke press release.
A Duke Energy executive said the company is “proud … to bring renewable energy to this region.”
The brand new advocacy group Organizing for Action, which was created from the remnants of Obama’s 2012 campaign and will advocate for Obama’s second-term policies, “closely affiliated itself” this month with Duke Energy.
Outgoing Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers recently suggested that he would be interested in becoming Obama’s next secretary of energy.
Duke Energy gave Democrats a $10 million loan for their 2012 convention. Rogers was co-chair of the 2012 Democratic National Convention and contributed the maximum $100,000 to support the convention. Duke Energy employees contributed more than $19,000 to Obama’s re-election campaign during the 2012 election cycle.
Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board in 2008 that he planned to bankrupt companies that wanted to build new coal-powered plants, to clear the way for renewable energy projects.
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Just more money laundrying by Obama.
Let me add some more to this fire.
The only successful wind energy in the US has been in Texas and like things that are successful other folks want a piece of it...WHY has Texas been successful. Our wind energy has been built on PRIVATE lands, using PRIVATE funds. We have been very successful in keeping the EPA/PETA/Sierra Club etc out due to it being a private action. That is the good news, but the bad news is we have caught the attention of Obammy and now they are showing up and building off the coast, putting Coal out of business.
If you knew how much we despise Bammy down here in Texas
17 Oaks - if you only knew how much we dis-like, have nothing but negative thoughts about the monster bammy.
Like we despise him here in NW Missouri.
Sounds like fascism to me!
he is the devil's workman out to destroy America! God help us!
The shutting down of the coal fired plant sure has got something to do with the B*****d. I have a close friend who's son works for a railroad and one of their major customers was a coal fired power plant which the EPA just shut down. It has definitely effected his job. I have a son who drives a semi hauling cast off coal from 100 years ago to a coal fired power plant. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he is effected.
OBAMA LEADS THE ARMY OF THE ( SATANIC REVOLUTION ) DESTROY CHRISTIANS === DESTROY GOD === DESTROY THE REPUBLIC .
And Obama will use this to say he is providing jobs with this plant but to who? His union cronies and how many others has he put out of work because of this? Lies, Lies and more Lies. The obama machine on the move again, and we are supporting this with our hard earned tax dollars.
Could we be selling off our reserves? (oil)
Statoil is Norwegian!